Broken hegemonies / by Reiner Schürmann ; translated by Reginald Lilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schürmann, Reiner, 1941-1993.

Contributor:

Lilly, Reginald.

Series:

Studies in Continental thought

Standardized Title:

Des hégémonies brisées. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Phenomenology.

Norm (Philosophy).

Philosophy--History.

Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 692 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2003]

Summary:

..". a book of striking originality and depth, a brilliant and quitenew interpretation of the nature and history of philosophy." -- JohnSallis -- In Broken Hegemonies, the late distinguished philosopherReiner Sch rmann offers a radical rethinking of the history of Western philosophyfrom the Greeks through Heidegger. Sch rmann interprets the history of Westernthought and action as a series of eras governed by the rise and fall of certaindominating philosophical ideas that contained the seeds of their own destruction.These eras coincided with their dominant languages: Greek, Latin, and vernaculartongues. Analyzing philosophical texts from Parmenides, Plotinus, and Cicero, through Augustine, Meister Eckhardt, and Kant, to Heidegger, Sch rmann traces thearguments by which these ideas gained hegemony and by which their credibility wasultimately demolished. Recognizing the failure of ultimate norms, Broken Hegemoniesquestions how humanity today is to think and act in the absence ofprinciples.

Contents:

On Hegemonic Fantasms 6

From Difference to Differend 16

The Birth of the Law from the Denial of the Tragic 26

The Law of the One, of Nature, and of Consciousness 37

Part 1 In the Name of the One: The Greek Hegemonic Fantasm 49

I. Its Institution: The One That Holds Together (Parmenides) 51

Chapter 1. Contradictories: Their Juxtaposition and Their Confusion 55

Two paths? 55

Only one path? 59

Or three paths? 65

Chapter 2. Contraries: The Ground for Obligation 71

The "symphysis" of thinking and being 74

The "synthesis" of the present and the absent 81

The "synechia" of contraries 89

Chapter 3. On Power and Forces: The Normative System 95

Legality and legitimacy 96

The logos, condition of laws 103

Chapter 4. Henology Turned against Itself? 110

Chapter 5. The Disparate: Narrative of a Journey 122

Narrating gathered singular things 122

Nomadic and eonic procedures 125

The henological differend: the phenomenalizing and singularizing one 131

II. Its Destitution: The One Turned against Itself (Plotinus) 137

Chapter 6. The Temporalizing Event 143

The henological difference 145

The one as event 147

Originary time 151

Time as bad eternity 153

Being as time 156

Chapter 7. The Singularizing Contretemps 161

On an insubordinate act that makes the law 164

From detachment to solitude 170

From stabilizing solitude to temporalizing audacity 179

The one, destituted by its agonic truth 186

Part 2 In the Name of Nature: The Latin Hegemonic Fantasm 189

Excursus: Xerxes punished by nature 195

I. Its Institution: The Principle of Telic Continuity (Cicero and Augustine) 201

Chapter 8. Concerning Singular Given Natures 205

On the nature that returns 206

On self-narrating natures 212

Chapter 9. On the Erratic Differend 222

On a normative singular that was 223

On a normative singular that will be 231

Chapter 10. On the Natural Double Bind: The Will Turned against Itself 240

Willing one's own as well as the common 244

Willing one's own as well as what is exogenous 249

On natural contre-temps: the law suffering singularizations 261

II. Its Destitution: the Double Bind of Principle and Origin (Meister Eckhart) 269

Chapter 11. Nature, Principle of Subordinations 275

The rotation of elements 278

The rotation of forces 282

Thomas Aquinas: nerves on edge 291

Chapter 12. Feet on One's Neighbor's Head 298

The immediate communication of the law 299

A poietic law 301

The temporality of natural law 303

The instance of self-possession 304

From a pure place to proper places 307

Limitation, delimitation, illimitation 311

Chapter 13. Nature Denatured by the Origin 319

"Detaching oneself": against the appropriation of ends 320

"Re-imaging oneself": against the a priori imagination of order 324

"Piercing through": for absolute freedom 330

"Articulating oneself": for singularization 335

Preface: Analytic of Ultimates and Topology of Broken Hegemonies 343

Part 3 In the Name of Consciousness: The Modern Hegemonic Fantasm 351

Excursus: the consciousness of Ulysses 356

I. Its Institution: On the Consciousness That Determines (Kant with Luther) 365

A. The Regime of Passive Consciousness: 'An Obedient Spirit that Lets Itself be Broken ...' 369

Chapter 1. The Identity of the "I" 371

Topography of speech 371

Being-for-consciousness 378

Consciousness through the word 384

The consciousness of a causality 390

The unity of receptive consciousness 398

Chapter 2. A Pathetic Differend 408

The time of the ego and the time of the self 412

Positing and letting-be 420

Perverse teleology 427

Normative consciousness broken 431

B. The Regime of Spontaneous Consciousness: "I, the Possessor of the World" 445

Chapter 3. The Torments of Autonomy 453

On pre-regional unification: the self reconsidered 454

On a pre-individual singularization: the ego reconsidered 469

Chapter 4. The Differend in Being-for-Consciousness 482

On givenness as position 486

The singular, limit of doing 487

The singular in consciousness 494

Time turned against itself 499

Recanting the denial 504

II. The Diremption: On Double Binds without a Common Noun (Heidegger) 511

Introduction: Proteus Alone Can Save Us Now 513

Riveted to a monstrous site 515

A "terrible warning" 522

Chapter 5. On the Historial Differend 529

On the late modern pathology: the self as other 529

Fantasms of the same: the integrative violence of the law 535

On the isomorphic: archic and anarchic 541

On the other that is being: what the diremption reveals 546

Chapter 6. What, the Deferred There? 553

On topology 553

"Now, in the transition toward the other beginning ..." 562

Chapter 7. On the Discordance of Times 575

On the singularizing "momentary sites" 575

The "fissured" moment 582

The event of what? 589

Whither expropriation? 599

The singularization to come 609

On the conditions of evil: denying dispossession 621

On impossible normative simplicity 627.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [633]-680) and indexes.

ISBN:

0253341442

0253215471

OCLC:

50441719